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BanG Dream!

April 12, 2024

"Bandori" redirects here. For the village in India, see Bandori, India.

BanG Dream!,[b] also known as Bandori! (バンドリ！), is a Japanese music media franchise owned by Bushiroad. Created by Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani in January 2015 with original story by Kō Nakamura, the project began as a manga before expanding to other media. In addition to other manga, BanG Dream! includes an anime television series, live concerts, singles and albums, vtubers, and the mobile rhythm game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! by Craft Egg.

BanG Dream!
BanG Dream! バンドリ！
(Bandori!)
GenreMusical fiction
Created byTakaaki Kidani (Bushiroad)
Manga
BanG_Dream! Star Beat
Written byKō Nakamura
Illustrated byAya Ishida
Published byBushiroad
MagazineMonthly Bushiroad
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 2015 – December 2015
Manga
Written byKō Nakamura
Illustrated byMami Kashiwabara
Published byBushiroad
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Bushiroad
DemographicShōnen
Original runApril 2016 – February 2019
Manga
Yonkoma: Bandori!
Written byHakuto Shiroi
Published byASCII Media Works
MagazineDengeki G's Comic
DemographicSeinen
Original run2016 – 2017
Volumes2
Light novel
Written byKō Nakamura
Illustrated byHitowa
Published byASCII Media Works
ImprintDengeki Bunko
DemographicMale
PublishedApril 25, 2016
Manga
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Roselia Stage
Written byPepako Dokuta
Published byOverlap
English publisherTokyopop
MagazineGardo Comics
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 10, 2017 – September 25, 2017
Volumes2
Manga
RAiSe! The story of my music
Written byKō Nakamura
Illustrated byRyū Shihara
Published byBushiroad
MagazineMonthly Bushiroad
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 2019 – present
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Atsushi Ōtsuki (season 1)
  • Kōdai Kakimoto (seasons 2–3)
Produced by
  • Akane Taketsugu (season 1)
  • Atsushi Iwasaki (season 1)
  • Atsushi Ōta (season 1)
  • Naohiko Furuchi (season 1)
  • Yasuhiro Nakajima (season 1)
  • Yūichi Kawakami (season 1)
  • Yoshiyuki Shioya (seasons 1–2)
  • Yūki Nemoto (season 2)
  • Satoshi Tanaka (seasons 2–3)
  • Takefumi Kanari (seasons 2–3)
  • Shūichi Heishi (seasons 2–3)
  • Shiryū Kitazawa (season 3)
Written byYuniko Ayana
Music byElements Garden
Studio
Licensed by
Original networkTokyo MX, KBS, Sun TV, AT-X
English network
Original run January 21, 2017 – April 23, 2020
Episodes39 + OVA (List of episodes)
Game
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
DeveloperCraft Egg
Publisher
GenreAdventure, rhythm
PlatformiOS, Android
ReleasedMarch 16, 2017 (Japanese)
October 19, 2017 (traditional Chinese)
February 6, 2018 (Korean)
April 4, 2018 (English)
May 30, 2019 (China)
Anime television series
Pastel Life
Directed byTommy Hino
StudioStudio A-Cat
Original networkTokyo MX
Original run May 16, 2018 – June 21, 2018
Episodes6 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico
Directed bySeiya Miyajima
StudioSanzigen
DMM.futureworks
Original networkTokyo MX, Sun TV
Original run July 5, 2018 – December 27, 2018
Episodes26
Anime film
BanG Dream! Film Live
Directed byTomomi Umetsu
Written byKō Nakamura
Music byElements Garden
StudioSanzigen
Licensed by
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2019 (2019-09-13)
Runtime72 minutes
Anime television series
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico: Ohmori
Directed bySeiya Miyajima
StudioSanzigen
DMM.futureworks
Original run May 7, 2020 – October 29, 2020
Episodes26
Anime film
BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia
Directed byKōdai Kakimoto (Chief)
Atsushi Mimura
Written byKōdai Kakimoto
Midori Gotou
Music byElements Garden
StudioSanzigen
Licensed byCrunchyroll[a]
Released April 23, 2021 – June 25, 2021
Anime film
BanG Dream! Film Live 2nd Stage
Directed byTomomi Umetsu
Written byKō Nakamura
Music byElements Garden
StudioSanzigen
Licensed byCrunchyroll[a]
ReleasedAugust 20, 2021 (2021-08-20)
Runtime84 minutes
Anime television series
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico Fever!
Directed bySeiya Miyajima
StudioSanzigen
DMM.futureworks
Original run October 7, 2021 – March 31, 2022
Episodes26
Anime film
BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Directed byKōdai Kakimoto (Chief)
Masanori Uetaka
Written byYuniko Ayana
Music byElements Garden
StudioSanzigen
Licensed byCrunchyroll[a]
ReleasedJanuary 1, 2022 (2022-01-01)
Runtime71 minutes
Anime television series
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
Directed byKōdai Kakimoto
Written byYuniko Ayana
Music byElements Garden
StudioSanzigen
Licensed byCrunchyroll[a]
  • SA/SEA: Muse Communication
Original networkTokyo MX
Original run June 29, 2023 – September 14, 2023
Episodes13 (List of episodes)
Anime film
BanG Dream! Spring Sunshine, Lost Cat
StudioSanzigen
Released2024
Anime film
BanG Dream! Sing, Songs That Become Us & Film Live
StudioSanzigen
Released2024
Anime television series
BanG Dream! Ave Mujica
StudioSanzigen
Original run January 2025 – scheduled
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The franchise's premise is based around all-female bands whose members are also voice actresses in the anime and mobile game; as of 2023, the project has eight groups, five of which are capable of playing their respective characters' instruments. The first band, Poppin'Party, was formed in February 2015, and further groups were introduced in 2017 with the launch of the mobile game: Afterglow, Pastel Palettes, Roselia, and Hello, Happy World!. In 2018, a backup band called The Third was renamed Raise A Suilen and joined the series, followed by a seventh unit named Morfonica in 2020. Further expansion in 2022 introduced MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica. For live performances, Poppin'Party, Roselia, Raise A Suilen, Morfonica, MyGO!!!!!, and Ave Mujica's voice actresses play their own music, while the others are limited to vocals.

The anime, which follows fictional representations of the bands, has three seasons of 13 episodes each. The first season, produced by Issen (OLM with Bushiroad) and Xebec, aired from January to April 2017. Sanzigen took over production duties for the second and third seasons, which were respectively broadcast in winter 2019 and 2020. A concert-centric movie BanG Dream! Film Live was released in 2019, followed by a sequel Film Live 2nd Stage in 2021. Three band-focused films have also been produced: the two-part Episode of Roselia series premiered in 2021, followed by BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream! premiered in 2022. Spin-off anime series include BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico and its sequels Pico: Ohmori and Pico Fever! by Sanzigen with DMM.futureworks and Pastel Life by Studio A-Cat. An anime following MyGO!!!!! titled It's MyGO!!!!! aired in summer 2023.

The series has enjoyed international popularity for its live performances and mobile game, while the anime has seen mixed but improving reviews with later seasons. In 2018, the franchise expanded to include a male-based counterpart Argonavis from BanG Dream!, which was spun off into an independent brand From Argonavis in 2021.

Plot edit

See also: List of BanG Dream! characters

BanG Dream! follows Kasumi Toyama, a happy-go-lucky girl and a new student at Hanasakigawa Girls' High School. During her first weeks at the school, she tries out for numerous clubs in an effort to rediscover the "Star Beat", a "sparkling, heart-pounding" feeling she experienced while looking up at the stars in the night sky as a child.

One day, while returning from school, she spots a trail of star stickers that lead her to a pawnshop owned by her classmate Arisa Ichigaya. In the storage area, she finds a star-shaped guitar with glittery stickers on it and quickly becomes attached to it. The two later visit a local live house, Space, where Kasumi decides to create a band upon watching a performance by a group named Glitter Green. She then recruits Arisa and three of their classmates – Sāya Yamabuki, Tae Hanazono, and Rimi Ushigome – to join her, though they are reluctant for personal reasons. Despite their initial misgivings, the five overcome many hurdles and ultimately agree to form the band "Poppin'Party". With her bandmates, Kasumi finds the excitement that she had been looking for.

During their first year of high school, Poppin'Party meets and befriends four all-girl bands at Hanasakigawa and nearby Haneoka Girls' High School, each of whom has their own stories: Afterglow consists of five childhood friends who maintain their friendship through music; Pastel Palettes is an idol group who are capable of playing their own instruments; Roselia is a gothic rock band who strives to become the perfect band; and Hello, Happy World! is an eccentric band that seeks to spread happiness. As second-year students, they encounter Raise A Suilen, an electronic music group aiming to revolutionize the girl's band genre, and Morfonica, a newly formed classical band of first-years at Tsukinomori Girls' Academy with dreams of changing themselves for the better.

History edit

Early history (2015–2016) edit

 
Original logo, as used in BanG_Dream! Star Beat

The premise for BanG Dream! was conceptualized in March 2014 by Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani, who wanted to lead a music project after seeing the success of Love Live! School Idol Festival, a mobile game published by his company.[3][4] When a staff member attended The Idolmaster Masters of Idol World!! 2014 concert at Saitama Super Arena, they took interest in guitarist Aimi and proposed having her in an all-female band. Figuring that such a concept would best be viable as a media franchise, Kidani concluded his new project's best method to gain success would be to have voice actresses who could play their own instruments in live shows.[3] To differentiate it from similar music works, Kidani has stressed that BanG Dream! is not an idol franchise but a "girl band" series.[5]

Novelist Kō Nakamura was approached by a Bushiroad editor who had read his music book Round and Round Slide to write the story, and he partnered with Aya Ishida for the franchise's first work BanG_Dream! Star Beat;[6][7] the manga started serialization in the Monthly Bushiroad magazine in January 2015.[8] Star Beat's universe was retconned following the franchise's reboot in 2016 as BanG Dream! without the underscore.[9][7] According to an August 24, 2016, post on Nakamura's Livedoor blog, the name BanG Dream! stemmed from the idea of "shooting" toward one's dreams.[2] Nakamura, who is formally credited as the franchise's original story creator, based certain aspects of the plot on his high school life such as the desire and efforts to form a band, the guitarist finding the instrument in a pawnshop, and band meetings being held in a warehouse.[10][11][12] To produce music, Kidani enlisted Noriyasu Agematsu of Elements Garden, who was skeptical of the franchise's concept due to the difficulties in balancing voice acting with practicing musical instruments but subsequently signed on to the project.[13] Prior musical experience was not a prerequisite for voice actresses as their primary responsibility was to portray characters for in-universe media, though they remained committed to playing their instruments, a mindset that Kidani felt grew the series' charm with fans;[14] in 2019, he noted that some cast members practiced for ten hours daily.[4]

At her Love Generation concert on February 28, 2015, Aimi announced she had aligned with the franchise, which included creating a band and serving as its guitarist and vocalist.[15] Rimi Nishimoto and Ayasa Itō joined the band in April, and the three hosted the project's first concert on April 18.[16] In June, Aimi performed a solo concert at CharaExpo 2015 in Singapore, the franchise's first performance outside of Japan.[17] The group was officially named Poppin'Party during the month, and Sae Ōtsuka and Ayaka Ōhashi completed the band lineup later in the year.[8] In addition to live performances, the five would voice their own characters in other media such as an anime series and animated music videos;[18] the character designs were also loosely modeled after their voice actresses to better reflect their ability to sing and perform.[3]

Poppin'Party's debut single "Yes! BanG_Dream!" was released on February 24, 2016.[19] A music video for the song was produced by Issen, a joint venture formed between Bushiroad and OLM, Inc. in 2015 that was also tasked with developing the anime.[20][21] To lead the animation, Nakamura served as writer while Agematsu and Pixiv artist Hitowa managed music production and character design, respectively.[20] Poppin'Party conducted the franchise's first in-character live on April 24;[22] the group's early performances were inspired by fellow all-female group Silent Siren, and the two bands collaborated in May 2019 for the Battle of the Bands-style No Girl No Cry concert at MetLife Dome.[23][24] Poppin'Party's third single "On Your New Journey / Tear Drops"[c] ranked tenth on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart in December, marking the first time an anime music group appeared in an Oricon chart's top ten prior to their show beginning broadcast.[26]

Launch of anime and game (2017–2019) edit

 
Illustration from Girls Band Party! featuring the vocalists of the initial five bands

In 2017, BanG Dream! expanded to include the anime and the mobile game BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!.[27] Prior to the latter's release, the franchise struggled to attract further fan support; in the spring, media attention was drawn to an official dōjinshi (self-published works like manga) event that saw only nine registered circles (a group of artists creating a certain work) despite organizing for 400 available circles.[8] A lukewarm reception to the anime prompted Kidani to refocus his scope on the game;[3] by its launch on March 16, GBP had attracted over 560,000 pre-registered players.[28] Kidani attributed its eventual success to the collaboration with Craft Egg and Elements Garden and the inclusion of cover versions of popular songs.[3] Four more bands—Afterglow, Pastel Palettes (stylized as Pastel＊Palettes), Roselia, and Hello, Happy World!—were introduced with the game's arrival.[27]

Roselia, who first appeared at Tokyo Game Show 2016, released its first single "Black Shout" on April 19, 2017.[29][30] The group then enjoyed success in May 2018 when its debut album Anfang, which contained the band's first five singles, was first on the Oricon Weekly Digital and iTunes album charts; the album also sold 25,000 copies in the first week of release, the second-most on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart.[31] The band went through two member changes in 2018, with Yuki Nakashima replacing the retiring Yurika Endō as bassist Lisa Imai in May and Kanon Shizaki taking over for Satomi Akesaka, who left the project in September due to sensorineural hearing loss, as keyboardist Rinko Shirokane in November.[32][33][34] In March 2020, Roselia won the 14th Seiyu Awards' Singing Award.[35]

The vocalists for Afterglow (Ayane Sakura), Pastel Palettes (Ami Maeshima), and Hello, Happy World! (Miku Itō) were revealed during a presentation at Sunshine City, Tokyo on December 7, 2016.[36] Afterglow's remaining cast members confirmed their involvement later in the month,[37] while the voice actresses for the other bands were announced in a promotional event at EX Theater Roppongi on February 24, 2017.[38] The three bands released their debut singles in 2017: Pastel Palettes' "Shuwarin Dreaming" (released July 12) ranked the highest on Oricon's weekly charts in fourth,[39] followed by Hello, Happy World!'s "Orchestra of Smiles!"[d] (August 2) and Afterglow's "That Is How I Roll!" (September 6) in ninth and 18th, respectively.[41][42]

On January 13–14, 2018, the five bands participated in the Garupa Live and Garupa Party! at Tokyo Big Sight, which included activities to promote Girls Band Party! and performances.[43] The Third (Beta), a backup band that provided instrumentals for Afterglow, Pastel Palettes, and Hello, Happy World! at the event as their voice actresses were not musicians, eventually became a standalone unit;[44] the tentative name was a reference to being the third live-action band in the franchise after Poppin'Party and Roselia.[45] The group's first live took place in March, and it was officially renamed Raise A Suilen (stylized as RAISE A SUILEN) in July.[46][47]

BanG Dream! saw its first dual-single release day on February 21, 2018, with Poppin'Party and Roselia releasing their ninth ("CiRCLING") and fifth singles ("Opera of the wasteland"), respectively.[48] A triple release took place on December 12 with Poppin'Party's "Kizuna Music", Roselia's "Brave Jewel", and Raise A Suilen's "R・I・O・T"; the three singles recorded top-ten Oricon Weekly Chart placements.[49]

Poppin'Party's first album Poppin'on! came out January 30, 2019; consisting of the group's first 11 singles, it peaked at fourth on Oricon's album chart.[10][50] On February 20, the franchise simultaneously released six singles, one from each band at the time;[51] the tracks placed in the top ten on Oricon's daily chart for February 19, with Roselia's "Safe and Sound" being the highest in third.[52]

Morfonica's debut and COVID-19 (2020–2021) edit

In January 2020, Poppin'Party's "Initial / Straight Through Our Dreams!",[e] whose tracks serve as the theme music to the anime's third season, became BanG Dream!'s first single to top Oricon's Weekly Single Sales Chart after selling 27,000 copies from January 7 to 11.[54] Shortly after the single's release, the franchise surpassed two million total music sales.[55] Five months later, the BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Cover Collection Vol. 4 ranked first on Oricon's Weekly Albums Chart with 2,231 first-week sales.[56] Poppin'Party (Breakthrough! on June 24), Roselia (Wahl on July 15), and Raise A Suilen (Era on August 19) also released albums during the summer.[57] "Initial / Straight Through Out Dreams!" (86th), Roselia's "Promise" (87th), and Raise A Suilen's "Drive Us Crazy" (97th) were among Billboard Japan's best-selling singles in 2020,[58] while Wahl (62nd), Era (86th), and the fourth (93rd) and third cover collections (94th) were among the year's top albums; Wahl and Era were also respectively ranked 67th and 94th on Billboard's Hot Albums of 2020.[59][60]

A seventh unit called Morfonica was introduced on March 1, 2020, to commemorate Girls Band Party!'s three-year anniversary.[61] Morfonica is the only band in the franchise with a violinist, a distinction that was conceived by Craft Egg to better differentiate it from the others.[62] The group's debut single "Daylight", which was released on May 27, sold over 15,000 copies in its first week and peaked at second on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.[63][64] Morfonica's first live, Cantabile, took place on October 7.[65]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various franchise-related events since 2020 have been impacted. Breakthrough! was intended for a 3 June release before being pushed to 24 June.[66] The BanG Dream! Special Live Girls Band Party! 2020 was originally scheduled to take place on May 3 until it was postponed to 5–6 June 2021, before being delayed again to 12 November 2022, as cases rose in Japan.[67][68][69] A stage play focusing on Raise A Suilen titled We are Raise A Suilen: BanG Dream! The Stage, which consisted of nine performances at the Tennozu Galaxy Theater from July 15 to 19, was streamed online with unused tickets being refunded.[70][71] The BanG Dream! 8th Live Summer Outdoors 3 Days, held August 21–23, admitted only a quarter of the venue's capacity.[62] On January 9, 2021, the franchise announced Shizaki had tested positive for COVID-19, forcing her to miss the project's Raukure! and Asuhamo events at Tokyo Dome City Hall two days later.[72] Morfonica's bassist Yūka Nishio skipped her band's Resonance performance on April 24, 2022, following a positive test.[73][74]

Poppin'Party's 16th single "Photograph", which was released in January 2021, became the band's second single to rank first on the Oricon Weekly Chart.[75]

Introduction of MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica (2022–present) edit

 
Guitars and basses from the franchise produced by ESP Guitars at the Taipei Musical Instruments Fair in 2022

Bushiroad continued to add new bands to the franchise with MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica in 2022 and 2023, respectively, under a new approach of "synchronizing" reality and the fictional universe.[76] While their characters were named, their voice actresses initially remained anonymous. To keep their identities hidden during their first shows, they played with limited stage lighting that covered their faces while Ave Mujica also wore cloaks.[77][78] MyGO!!!!!'s voice actresses were officially revealed at their fourth live show on April 9, 2023.[79]

The first standalone concert for MyGO!!!!! took place on July 3, 2022 with Morfonica's drummer Mika as a supporting musician, and they opened for the Special Live Girls Band Party! in November.[80][81] The band released their debut single "Mayoiuta" on November 9.[82]

Ave Mujica released their first single "Black Birthday" on April 11, 2023, followed by their introductory concert on June 4 as part of the final music festival for Nakano Sunplaza prior to its closure.[78]

On November 30, 2022, Maeshima announced her departure from the franchise as part of a career hiatus for health reasons;[83] she had missed the Special Live Girls Band Party! two weeks prior.[80] Despite initial plans for Maeshima's lines as Aya will remain in the game once her successor joined the franchise,[84][85] Maeshima returned to her role on September 1, 2023.[86]

On December 12, 2023, it was announced that Raise A Suilen will perform in Taipei and Shanghai for their Asia tour on March 2024.

Media edit

Live concerts edit

Main article: List of BanG Dream! live performances
 
The stage for the BanG Dream! 9th Live at Fuji-Q Highland Conifer Forest on August 22, 2021

The voice actresses of Poppin'Party, Roselia, Raise A Suilen, and Morfonica play their respective characters' instruments during live concerts, while the other groups are limited to providing vocals.[61] In a 2019 interview with Billboard Japan, Roselia's Haruka Kudō and Megu Sakuragawa described this distinction of being a "voice actor's band" as helping the franchise gain popularity among those unfamiliar with the game and anime,[87] while the anime's second- and third-season director Kōdai Kakimoto explained in 2020 that his staff implements events from the live-action concerts into the show to "portray the connection between real life and anime." For example, the third season's final episode features references to the BanG Dream! 7th Live as both take place at the Nippon Budokan.[88] The first season under Issen also incorporated elements of the performances into the plot, such as Kasumi losing her voice in one episode being based on the same occurring to Aimi during the franchise's first show.[3]

The first BanG_Dream! concert, titled I Started a Band in Spring! and held at Shimokitazawa Garden, took place on April 18, 2015, with Aimi, Nishimoto, and Itō; the three played mainly cover songs with the exception of the original song "Yes! BanG_Dream!".[16] In 2016, the BanG Dream! First Live Sprin'Party 2016! on April 24 marked the first performance since the franchise's rebranding to BanG Dream!.[22] The shows' increasing popularity was marked by the Second Live Starrin'Party 2016! selling out much of its tickets shortly after opening sales,[89] while the 4th Live Miracle Party 2017! at the Budokan sold out its 11,000 tickets prior to general sale; Live Viewing Japan simulcasted the performance in 41 Japanese theaters, with showings also taking place in Hong Kong and Taiwan.[90][91] Delayed screenings would also be provided for later lives; for instance, the BanG Dream! 5th Live in 2018 was shown in select North American and Australian theaters by Azoland Pictures and Madman Entertainment, respectively.[92][93]

In December 2020, the franchise began streaming "Sound Only Lives", online concerts with exclusively song audio and interactions between the voice cast, on its YouTube channel.[94] The first, Afterglow's As ever, took place on December 19 and 20,[95] followed by Pastel Palettes' Flowerful on February 27 and 28, 2021.[94] Hello, Happy World!'s Sound Only Live, titled Welcome to OUR MUSIC, was on May 15–16.[96]

Print edit

BanG_Dream! Star Beat by Ishida and Nakamura debuted in Monthly Bushiroad on January 8, 2015. Featuring numerous differences in character traits from the current series, the manga consisted of twelve chapters and ran from the magazine's February 2015 to January 2016 issues.[9] A light novel by Nakamura and illustrated by Hitowa, which follows Star Beat's story, was published on August 25, 2016, by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint.[97]

A manga series following the redesigned universe, BanG Dream! by Mami Kashiwabara and Nakamura, was serialized in Monthly Bushiroad from April 2016 to February 2019.[98][99][100] Shogakukan Asia acquired the rights to translate the manga into English in February 2017; although the company first released the manga in Southeast Asia, its license was not exclusive to the region.[101] 2016 and 2017 saw the release of two four-panel manga with Hakuto Shiroi's Yonkoma: Bandori!, which debuted in ASCII Media Works' seinen manga magazine Dengeki G's Comic and concluded in 2017,[102][103] and the surrealist Banban Doridori by Nyaromeron in Sogakukan's Coro Coro Aniki.[104]

In 2017, the first non-Poppin'Party-centric manga, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Roselia Stage, was written by Pepako Dokuta and circulated in Overlap's magazine Gardo Comics from February to September. On March 2, 2020, Tokyopop announced it had licensed the series for North American release.[105] Raise A Suilen also received a series, titled RAiSe! The story of my music, by Nakamura and art by Ryū Shihara; RAiSe! began in 2019 in Monthly Bushiroad.[106]

An anthology series manga of the chibi anime spin-off BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico was published by Bushiroad and released by Kadokawa Corporation on March 14, 2019. Titled BanG Dream! Garupa Pico Comic Anthology, the book is a compilation work from 17 artists.[107] An online manga titled BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! The First Page, which retells event stories from the game, was released on March 16, 2021.[108]

Anime edit

Main article: List of BanG Dream! episodes

As of 2023, the franchise's mainline anime television adaptation consists of three seasons. Sentai Filmworks licenses the series for digital and home release in regions like North America, Oceania, and Europe;[109] the company also simulcast the second and third seasons on its HIDIVE platform.[110][111] In Southeast Asia and South Asia, Muse Communication holds the show's rights.[112]

The first season, which was animated by Issen and Xebec and directed by Atsushi Ōtsuki, aired from January 21 to April 22, 2017, on Tokyo MX.[113][114] The 13-episode series follows Poppin'Party's creation and the band performs the show's opening and ending theme music "Tokimeki Experience!" and "Sparkling Dreaming: Sing Girls ".[f][116] The anime was streamed on the Anime Network and by Crunchyroll,[113][117] and was later released across seven Blu-ray and DVD volumes. An original video animation episode received advanced screenings before being available on the seventh BD/DVD volume released on November 22.[118]

Sanzigen replaced Issen and Xebec for the second and third seasons, which saw a shift to primarily computer-generated animation;[119][120] in comparison, the first season only used CGI during performances to better show the nuances in playing instruments.[121] Although CGI was the focal animation type under Sanzigen, some aspects like various articles of clothing were still drawn by hand, and motion-capture acting was utilized for performances.[88][122] BanG Dream! was the first non-science fiction production by Sanzigen, who prepared for the anime by creating a music video for the Roselia song "Neo-Aspect".[123][124] Kōdai Kakimoto took over as director while staff members like composition and script writer Yuniko Ayana continued their roles.[125]

Airing from January 3 to March 28, 2019, and simulcast on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE, BanG Dream! 2nd Season increases its scope to include Afterglow, Pastel Palettes, Roselia, Hello, Happy World!, and Raise A Suilen.[126][127] Unlike its predecessor, the season features a larger emphasis on concerts, which Sanzigen reflected by titling each episode after songs (the first season used "fun and cute" titles that followed a subject and verb sentence structure).[88] It had two opening themes: "Kizuna Music" by Poppin'Party and "Brave Jewel" by Roselia, and two ending themes: "Jumpin'" by Poppin'Party and "Safe and Sound" by Roselia.[128][110] An English dub of the season was released on Blu-ray and began streaming on HIDIVE on April 21, 2020;[129][130] the dub was directed by John Swasey and licensed by Sentai.[131]

The third season was originally scheduled for October 2019 before being delayed to January 2020.[132] It details Poppin'Party's participation in the BanG Dream! Girls Band Challenge and the growth of Raise A Suilen;[133] the premise of a competition had been entertained by the animation staff prior to beginning production on the second season.[88] With more focus on the bands' individual development, the season's episode titles were taken from lines stated by the characters in the episodes.[88] BanG Dream! 3rd Season aired from January 23 to April 23, 2020,[134] though the first episode came out on January 7 as it was bundled with a limited-edition Blu-ray release for Poppin'Party's "Initial / Straight Through Our Dreams!".[135] The single's tracks are also the season's theme music, with "Initial" as the opening and "Straight Through Our Dreams!" as the ending.[136] Kakimoto and the previous season's staff returned for the new installment.[137] HIDIVE's simulcast began with the January 7 premiere date, while VRV also assumed streaming rights.[111][138]

Spin-offs and films edit

Outside of the main series, two chibi spin-offs called Pastel Life and BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico aired in May and July 2018, respectively.[139][140] Studio A-Cat worked on Pastel Life with leadership from Tommy Hino,[141][142] while Pico was animated by Sanzigen in conjunction with DMM.futureworks and directed by Seiya Miyajima.[143][144] A second season of Pico titled BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico: Ohmori aired from May to October 2020.[145] A third season of Pico titled BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico Fever! aired from October 7, 2021, to March 31, 2022.[146][147]

BanG Dream! Film Live, a concert movie animated by Sanzigen and starring the original five bands, premiered on September 13, 2019.[132][148] The movie was directed by Tomomi Umetsu with script by Nakamura; in addition to the main cast, Kazuyuki Ueda and Elements Garden returned to reprise their roles as character designer and music producer, respectively.[149] After opening in 56 theaters, the film grossed approximately ¥300 million at the box office in its first month.[148][150] After acquiring its license in August 2020, Sentai conducted limited cinematic screenings of the movie in addition to home release.[151] A sequel, BanG Dream! Film Live 2nd Stage, adds Morfonica and Raise A Suilen to the cast and premiered on August 20, 2021.[152][153]

A two-part film series focusing on Roselia called BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia (each subtitled Promise and Song I am.) saw a theatrical release in 2021; Promise premiered on April 23, while Song I am. did so on June 25.[154][155] Online streaming platform Eventive carried both movies in the United States.[156] A Poppin'Party-centric movie titled BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream! premiered on January 1, 2022.[138][157] Crunchyroll licensed both films outside of Asia.[158]

In 2022, to commemorate Girls Band Party!'s fifth anniversary, a two-episode animation titled BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! 5th Anniversary Animation: CiRCLE Thanks Party! was released on March 10 and 17.[159]

On March 19, 2022, it was announced that Morfonica was receiving an original anime titled BanG Dream! Morfonication, which premiered on July 28 and 29, 2022.[160][161]

An anime television series adaptation centered around MyGO!!!!! was announced on April 9, 2023. The series was animated by Sanzigen and directed by Kodai Kakimoto, with Yuniko Ayana writing and supervising series scripts. It premiered on June 29, 2023, with three episodes premiering on the same day.[162][163] Crunchyroll licensed the series.[164]

On January 6, it was announced that it will compilation film into two parts, revealed the two parts would be titled "Spring Sunshine, Lost Cat" and "Sing, Songs That Become Us & FILM LIVE", is set to premiere in Japanese theaters on 2024.[165][166]

A sequel, titled Ave Mujica, was announced after the airing of the thirteenth episode in September 2023.[167] It will premiere in January 2025.[168]

Game edit

Main article: BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
 
A BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! promotion with Lawson in Chongqing in 2019

BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!, also known as Garupa, is a free-to-play mobile rhythm game developed by Craft Egg and published by Bushiroad's Bushimo for the Android and iOS platforms.[169] Revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2016,[170] it was first released in Japan on March 16, 2017.[28] An English-language global version was launched in Singapore on March 29, 2018, followed by a worldwide release on April 4.[171] The game was also released in traditional Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao on October 19, 2017, with Mobimon Inc. serving as publisher;[172][173] mainland China received its own version by bilibili on May 30, 2019.[174] A Korean-language edition was published by Kakao Games on February 6, 2018.[175][176] The Korean server will cease operations in January 31, 2024.

The gameplay consists of tapping notes as they scroll toward the bottom to the rhythm of a selected song.[177] Playable tracks include original pieces from the series and cover versions of popular anime music, the latter of which was inspired by their popularity during the BanG Dream! lives. Kidani compared the inclusion of covers to the use of mainstream series in Bushiroad's Weiß Schwarz card game as "drops in momentum" are canceled out by "the addition of popular titles."[3] Some covers were spawned by collaborations between the game and other series such as the anime Is the Order a Rabbit? and Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.[178][179]

An augmented reality application based on the game titled Bandori! Garupa AR! was distributed for a limited period starting January 9, 2018.[180] In 2019, Girls Band Party! partnered with SCRAP Co. to organize "Find the Random Star!", an escape room-like game in which participants search for Kasumi's lost guitar by solving riddles located throughout the city. The event ran from December 4, 2019, to February 29, 2020, in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.[181]

A Nintendo Switch port was released on September 16, 2021.[68][182]

Side projects edit

Argonavis edit

Main article: From Argonavis

In May 2018, Bushiroad revealed a male-centric project titled Argonavis from BanG Dream! (stylized as ARGONAVIS). Despite sharing the BanG Dream! name, Kidani emphasized that Argonavis takes place in a different world from the main series, meaning there would be no interactions between the characters of both projects.[183] The titular band began performing in December; like their female counterparts, Argonavis plays their own music in addition to portraying characters.[184] Argonavis also overlapped with the main franchise at the BanG Dream! 7th Live on February 22, 2019, where they served as the opening act for Raise A Suilen's Genesis concert.[185] Manga artist Hikaru Miyoshi designed the characters and Nobuhiro Mōri wrote the story.[186]

An Argonavis anime series produced by Sanzigen debuted on April 10, 2020.[187] The Argonavis from BanG Dream! AAside mobile game, a sequel to the anime that adds additional bands, was released on January 14, 2021.[188][189]

In November 2021, Bushiroad announced the project would be changed from Argonavis from BanG Dream! to From Argonavis (stylized with a lowercase "f"), spinning it off into its own subsidiary separate from the BanG Dream! franchise.[190] A new company to manage the project, Argonavis Co., Ltd. was also established with Argonavis member Daisuke Hyūga as the public relations manager.[191]

Virtual band edit

A band for VTubers, which entails being hired by Bushiroad's voice acting agency HiBiKi for online streaming, was created in 2022. Open auditions were held from July 22 to August 14, though applicants were not required to play instruments.[192]

Reception edit

When Girls Band Party! was released, everything just went through the roof... That's why, while there are a lot of people who thought, "Wait, how did this thing become a hit when the anime was that bad?", I think it's all because of the game's level of polish and the live shows. We accomplished something that didn't seem possible, after all.

Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani, in a 2018 interview with Real Sound[3]

BanG Dream! has received worldwide acclaim for its live concerts and Girls Band Party!.[3] In 2017, Jessica Liong of ComicsVerse described the "biggest appeal" of the franchise as being "its live performers. The key, it seems, is to draw people in with anime girls and keep them with the glamor of real-life concerts."[8] After Poppin'Party's debut single "Yes! BanG_Dream!" sold less than 1,500 copies in its first week and their second song "Star Beat!" had 3,414 in the same time frame, performances such as at Animelo Summer Live 2016 helped boost the initial-week sales of the third single "On Your New Journey / Tear Drops" to 11,301. By 2018, the band's singles regularly saw over 10,000–20,000 sales in their opening weeks.[193]

The series has become a financial boon for Bushiroad. In 2018, it averaged over ¥4 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the company's top-producing intellectual properties. From August 2017 to July 2018, Bushiroad's Weiß Schwarz brand experienced record sales after adding BanG Dream! cards to its collection.[194] Girls Band Party! grossed ¥31.2 billion ($284.28 million) between 2017 and 2018, including ¥9.1 billion in 2017 and ¥22.1 billion in 2018;[195][196] during the latter year, the game was the 15th-most successful mobile game and the second-most successful rhythm game in Japan in terms of revenue, only behind The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage.[196] BanG Dream! has also collaborated with various entities for promotions like Pacific League baseball,[197] the Lawson convenience store chain,[198][199] and Seiko watches.[200]

Anime edit

The anime has garnered mixed but gradually improving reception over time. Although the first season had lukewarm responses, the second and third have been regarded in a more positive light by reviewers. Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post, who reviewed the first two seasons, praised the franchise's preparation for the anime's later seasons by producing other media to flesh out the setting rather than hastily creating additional seasons.[129]

The first season was one of the most-discussed shows on Japanese social media during the winter 2017 season.[201] However, it received mediocre reviews with particular criticism aimed at its plot. In a "C−"-grade critique, Anime News Network's Christopher Farris described the story as being "one of the downright emptiest [he had] seen in anime in a long while", citing the lack of true adversity faced by the characters.[121] Opinions on the animation and design were divided, with Farris calling it "a great-looking product overall" while Otaku USA writer Brittany Vincent—who noted other music shows like Love Live! also use CGI—wrote they "don't look particularly great".[202][121] Although Vincent praised the show for having "a lot of heart", she added "there are more inspired choices out there" for music anime.[202] Beveridge expressed his pleasure with the cast's realism, though he stressed the viewer's opinion of the characters "will make or break the show." He ultimately described BanG Dream! as a "solid and serviceable show that felt like a lot of other girl band shows."[203] In a 2018 interview with Real Sound, Kidani admitted the unenthusiastic reception from Japanese audiences led him to shift his investment to promoting Girls Band Party! before its release.[3]

Among Western reviewers, the second season was generally seen as an improvement story- and animation-wise. In an article for Polygon, Julia Lee listed the season as one of "six new anime series to watch this winter", praising the emphasis on the new bands and the switch to CGI "without losing much of the artistic style that made the first (season) pop."[204] Farris questioned the inclusion of new characters without much introduction, writing it was a jarring transition for those unfamiliar to Girls Band Party!. Nevertheless, he commended its emotional impact and increase in musical numbers, grading the season as a "C+" as he felt there were "still a lot of caveats to iron out before it can be called a true success for all but the most devoted."[205] Beveridge praised the season's performances for its fluid animation and "infectious energy" in the songs, and added that although he was not invested in the individual characters, he found it "incredibly easy to be engaged from episode to episode and enjoy the journey."[129]

The third season enjoyed favorable responses from writers like Farris and The Fandom Post's Shawn Hacaga, the former issuing a "B+" grade and the latter—who considers himself a fan of the franchise—writing reviews for each episode.[206][207] Describing the season as "a generally solid show in its own right," Farris praised the storyline for its concrete emphasis on the three main bands (Poppin'Party, Roselia, and Raise A Suilen) and its success in promoting the franchise's premise that "playing in a band with your friends for fun is the ultimate goal of performing".[206] Hacaga lauded Raise A Suilen's story, prompting him to regard the season as exceeding his expectations in his review of the fourth and fifth episodes, and described the bands' growths throughout the season as "an absolute joy" to watch in his final critique.[208][209]

Discography edit

Main article: BanG Dream! discography

Eleven bands (Poppin'Party, Roselia, Afterglow, Pastel Palettes, Hello, Happy World!, Raise A Suilen, Morfonica, MyGO!!!!!, Ave Mujica, Mugendai Mewtype, and Glitter Green) have each released singles and albums, the latter of which include original and cover songs. Glitter Green's lone single "Don't be afraid!", which was used as an insert song for the anime's first season, was released in collaboration with Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.[210]

Kō Nakamura and Elements Garden's Asuka Oda serve as the franchise's primary lyricists, with the former writing lyrics for most Poppin'Party songs while the latter does so for the others. Elements Garden's other members such as Noriyasu Agematsu and Junpei Fujita also compose and arrange music for the series.[211] In 2021, the project introduced a series of "tie-up" partnership songs that are written and composed by artists outside of Elements Garden; the first song, "Introduction" performed by Poppin'Party, was the creation of Yoasobi's Ayase.[212][213] Afterglow also teamed up with the band Flow for the song "Winner" as part of Flow's single "Dice".[214]

Various songs from BanG Dream! have been used as theme music for other Bushiroad properties. Poppin'Party's "Excellent (Hey, Let's Go!)"[g] and "B.O.F." served as an opening and ending theme for the Future Card Buddyfight series, respectively; Aimi and Nishimoto also voiced characters in the show.[216][217] In 2020, Raise A Suilen performed the opening "Sacred world" for the anime Assault Lily Bouquet.[218] The following year, RAS' "Exist" and "Embrace of light" were the themes to Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood.[219] In July, Poppin'Party and Argonavis performed the theme songs "A Song No More"[h] and "Possibility", respectively, for Remake Our Life!; Aimi and Argonavis' Masahiro Itō also starred in the show.[221][222] Poppin'Party's "Moonlight Walk" was also used as the ending for The Fruit of Evolution.[223]

The Cardfight!! Vanguard series has also made regular use of the franchise's music for theme songs. Its 2018 reboot saw Roselia perform the opening "Legendary" and ending "Heroic Advent" (the latter appearing in the G: Z arc),[224][225] while RAS was responsible for one of the reboot's endings "Unstoppable" and Cardfight!! Vanguard: High School Arc Cont.'s themes with "Invincible Fighter" and "Takin' My Heart".[226][227] In 2021, the first season of Cardfight!! Vanguard overDress respectively featured Roselia's "ZEAL of proud" and Argonavis' "Y" as its opening and ending, while the second season utilized Morfonica's "Fateful..." as an ending.[228][229] The 2018 Cardfight!! spin-off Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale had the Pastel Palettes song "Wonderland Girl" as its opening.[230]

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d Also known as Funimation.
  2. ^ "BanG Dream!" is a stylized form of "Girl Band Dream", the "G" of "Girl" replacing the "d" of "Band" to form "BanG".[2]
  3. ^ Japanese title: "Hashiri Hajimeta Bakari no Kimi ni / Teardrops" (走り始めたばかりのキミに／ティアドロップス); English title is from the English-language website.[25]
  4. ^ Japanese title: "Egao no Orchestra!" (えがおのオーケストラっ！); English title is from the English-language website.[40]
  5. ^ Japanese title: "Initial / Yume wo Uchinuku Shunkan ni!" (イニシャル/夢を撃ち抜く瞬間に！); English title is from the English-language website.[53]
  6. ^ Japanese title: "Kirakira da toka Yume da toka ~Sing Girls~" (キラキラだとか夢だとか ～Sing Girls～); English title is from the English-language website.[115]
  7. ^ Japanese title: "Saa Ikō (Let's Go)!" (最高(さあ行こう)！); English title is from the English-language website.[215]
  8. ^ Japanese title: "Koko Kara Saki wa Uta ni Naranai" (ここから先は歌にならない); English title is from the English-language website.[220]

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Bandori redirects here For the village in India see Bandori India BanG Dream b also known as Bandori バンドリ is a Japanese music media franchise owned by Bushiroad Created by Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani in January 2015 with original story by Kō Nakamura the project began as a manga before expanding to other media In addition to other manga BanG Dream includes an anime television series live concerts singles and albums vtubers and the mobile rhythm game BanG Dream Girls Band Party by Craft Egg BanG Dream BanG Dream バンドリ Bandori GenreMusical fictionCreated byTakaaki Kidani Bushiroad MangaBanG Dream Star BeatWritten byKō NakamuraIllustrated byAya IshidaPublished byBushiroadMagazineMonthly BushiroadDemographicShōnenOriginal runJanuary 2015 December 2015MangaWritten byKō NakamuraIllustrated byMami KashiwabaraPublished byBushiroadEnglish publisherSG Shogakukan AsiaMagazineMonthly BushiroadDemographicShōnenOriginal runApril 2016 February 2019MangaYonkoma Bandori Written byHakuto ShiroiPublished byASCII Media WorksMagazineDengeki G s ComicDemographicSeinenOriginal run2016 2017Volumes2Light novelWritten byKō NakamuraIllustrated byHitowaPublished byASCII Media WorksImprintDengeki BunkoDemographicMalePublishedApril 25 2016MangaBanG Dream Girls Band Party Roselia StageWritten byPepako DokutaPublished byOverlapEnglish publisherTokyopopMagazineGardo ComicsDemographicShōnenOriginal runFebruary 10 2017 September 25 2017Volumes2MangaRAiSe The story of my musicWritten byKō NakamuraIllustrated byRyu ShiharaPublished byBushiroadMagazineMonthly BushiroadDemographicShōnenOriginal runFebruary 2019 presentAnime television seriesDirected byAtsushi Ōtsuki season 1 Kōdai Kakimoto seasons 2 3 Produced byAkane Taketsugu season 1 Atsushi Iwasaki season 1 Atsushi Ōta season 1 Naohiko Furuchi season 1 Yasuhiro Nakajima season 1 Yuichi Kawakami season 1 Yoshiyuki Shioya seasons 1 2 Yuki Nemoto season 2 Satoshi Tanaka seasons 2 3 Takefumi Kanari seasons 2 3 Shuichi Heishi seasons 2 3 Shiryu Kitazawa season 3 Written byYuniko AyanaMusic byElements GardenStudioIssen season 1 Xebec season 1 Sanzigen seasons 2 3 Licensed byNA Sentai FilmworksSA SEA Muse CommunicationOriginal networkTokyo MX KBS Sun TV AT XEnglish networkSEA Animax Asia 1 Original runJanuary 21 2017 April 23 2020Episodes39 OVA List of episodes GameBanG Dream Girls Band Party DeveloperCraft EggPublisherJP BushiroadWW Bushiroad InternationalCHN bilibiliKR Kakao GamesTW HK MC Mobimon Inc GenreAdventure rhythmPlatformiOS AndroidReleasedMarch 16 2017 Japanese October 19 2017 traditional Chinese February 6 2018 Korean April 4 2018 English May 30 2019 China Anime television seriesPastel LifeDirected byTommy HinoStudioStudio A CatOriginal networkTokyo MXOriginal runMay 16 2018 June 21 2018Episodes6 List of episodes Anime television seriesBanG Dream Girls Band Party PicoDirected bySeiya MiyajimaStudioSanzigenDMM futureworksOriginal networkTokyo MX Sun TVOriginal runJuly 5 2018 December 27 2018Episodes26Anime filmBanG Dream Film LiveDirected byTomomi UmetsuWritten byKō NakamuraMusic byElements GardenStudioSanzigenLicensed byNA Sentai FilmworksSEA Muse CommunicationReleasedSeptember 13 2019 2019 09 13 Runtime72 minutesAnime television seriesBanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico OhmoriDirected bySeiya MiyajimaStudioSanzigenDMM futureworksOriginal runMay 7 2020 October 29 2020Episodes26Anime filmBanG Dream Episode of RoseliaDirected byKōdai Kakimoto Chief Atsushi MimuraWritten byKōdai KakimotoMidori GotouMusic byElements GardenStudioSanzigenLicensed byCrunchyroll a ReleasedApril 23 2021 June 25 2021Anime filmBanG Dream Film Live 2nd StageDirected byTomomi UmetsuWritten byKō NakamuraMusic byElements GardenStudioSanzigenLicensed byCrunchyroll a ReleasedAugust 20 2021 2021 08 20 Runtime84 minutesAnime television seriesBanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico Fever Directed bySeiya MiyajimaStudioSanzigenDMM futureworksOriginal runOctober 7 2021 March 31 2022Episodes26Anime filmBanG Dream Poppin Dream Directed byKōdai Kakimoto Chief Masanori UetakaWritten byYuniko AyanaMusic byElements GardenStudioSanzigenLicensed byCrunchyroll a ReleasedJanuary 1 2022 2022 01 01 Runtime71 minutesAnime television seriesBanG Dream It s MyGO Directed byKōdai KakimotoWritten byYuniko AyanaMusic byElements GardenStudioSanzigenLicensed byCrunchyroll a SA SEA Muse CommunicationOriginal networkTokyo MXOriginal runJune 29 2023 September 14 2023Episodes13 List of episodes Anime filmBanG Dream Spring Sunshine Lost CatStudioSanzigenReleased2024Anime filmBanG Dream Sing Songs That Become Us amp Film LiveStudioSanzigenReleased2024Anime television seriesBanG Dream Ave MujicaStudioSanzigenOriginal runJanuary 2025 scheduled Anime and manga portalThe franchise s premise is based around all female bands whose members are also voice actresses in the anime and mobile game as of 2023 update the project has eight groups five of which are capable of playing their respective characters instruments The first band Poppin Party was formed in February 2015 and further groups were introduced in 2017 with the launch of the mobile game Afterglow Pastel Palettes Roselia and Hello Happy World In 2018 a backup band called The Third was renamed Raise A Suilen and joined the series followed by a seventh unit named Morfonica in 2020 Further expansion in 2022 introduced MyGO and Ave Mujica For live performances Poppin Party Roselia Raise A Suilen Morfonica MyGO and Ave Mujica s voice actresses play their own music while the others are limited to vocals The anime which follows fictional representations of the bands has three seasons of 13 episodes each The first season produced by Issen OLM with Bushiroad and Xebec aired from January to April 2017 Sanzigen took over production duties for the second and third seasons which were respectively broadcast in winter 2019 and 2020 A concert centric movie BanG Dream Film Live was released in 2019 followed by a sequel Film Live 2nd Stage in 2021 Three band focused films have also been produced the two part Episode of Roselia series premiered in 2021 followed by BanG Dream Poppin Dream premiered in 2022 Spin off anime series include BanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico and its sequels Pico Ohmori and Pico Fever by Sanzigen with DMM futureworks and Pastel Life by Studio A Cat An anime following MyGO titled It s MyGO aired in summer 2023 The series has enjoyed international popularity for its live performances and mobile game while the anime has seen mixed but improving reviews with later seasons In 2018 the franchise expanded to include a male based counterpart Argonavis from BanG Dream which was spun off into an independent brand From Argonavis in 2021 Contents 1 Plot 2 History 2 1 Early history 2015 2016 2 2 Launch of anime and game 2017 2019 2 3 Morfonica s debut and COVID 19 2020 2021 2 4 Introduction of MyGO and Ave Mujica 2022 present 3 Media 3 1 Live concerts 3 2 Print 3 3 Anime 3 3 1 Spin offs and films 3 4 Game 4 Side projects 4 1 Argonavis 4 2 Virtual band 5 Reception 5 1 Anime 6 Discography 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksPlot editSee also List of BanG Dream characters BanG Dream follows Kasumi Toyama a happy go lucky girl and a new student at Hanasakigawa Girls High School During her first weeks at the school she tries out for numerous clubs in an effort to rediscover the Star Beat a sparkling heart pounding feeling she experienced while looking up at the stars in the night sky as a child One day while returning from school she spots a trail of star stickers that lead her to a pawnshop owned by her classmate Arisa Ichigaya In the storage area she finds a star shaped guitar with glittery stickers on it and quickly becomes attached to it The two later visit a local live house Space where Kasumi decides to create a band upon watching a performance by a group named Glitter Green She then recruits Arisa and three of their classmates Saya Yamabuki Tae Hanazono and Rimi Ushigome to join her though they are reluctant for personal reasons Despite their initial misgivings the five overcome many hurdles and ultimately agree to form the band Poppin Party With her bandmates Kasumi finds the excitement that she had been looking for During their first year of high school Poppin Party meets and befriends four all girl bands at Hanasakigawa and nearby Haneoka Girls High School each of whom has their own stories Afterglow consists of five childhood friends who maintain their friendship through music Pastel Palettes is an idol group who are capable of playing their own instruments Roselia is a gothic rock band who strives to become the perfect band and Hello Happy World is an eccentric band that seeks to spread happiness As second year students they encounter Raise A Suilen an electronic music group aiming to revolutionize the girl s band genre and Morfonica a newly formed classical band of first years at Tsukinomori Girls Academy with dreams of changing themselves for the better History editEarly history 2015 2016 edit nbsp Original logo as used in BanG Dream Star BeatThe premise for BanG Dream was conceptualized in March 2014 by Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani who wanted to lead a music project after seeing the success of Love Live School Idol Festival a mobile game published by his company 3 4 When a staff member attended The Idolmaster Masters of Idol World 2014 concert at Saitama Super Arena they took interest in guitarist Aimi and proposed having her in an all female band Figuring that such a concept would best be viable as a media franchise Kidani concluded his new project s best method to gain success would be to have voice actresses who could play their own instruments in live shows 3 To differentiate it from similar music works Kidani has stressed that BanG Dream is not an idol franchise but a girl band series 5 Novelist Kō Nakamura was approached by a Bushiroad editor who had read his music book Round and Round Slide to write the story and he partnered with Aya Ishida for the franchise s first work BanG Dream Star Beat 6 7 the manga started serialization in the Monthly Bushiroad magazine in January 2015 8 Star Beat s universe was retconned following the franchise s reboot in 2016 as BanG Dream without the underscore 9 7 According to an August 24 2016 post on Nakamura s Livedoor blog the name BanG Dream stemmed from the idea of shooting toward one s dreams 2 Nakamura who is formally credited as the franchise s original story creator based certain aspects of the plot on his high school life such as the desire and efforts to form a band the guitarist finding the instrument in a pawnshop and band meetings being held in a warehouse 10 11 12 To produce music Kidani enlisted Noriyasu Agematsu of Elements Garden who was skeptical of the franchise s concept due to the difficulties in balancing voice acting with practicing musical instruments but subsequently signed on to the project 13 Prior musical experience was not a prerequisite for voice actresses as their primary responsibility was to portray characters for in universe media though they remained committed to playing their instruments a mindset that Kidani felt grew the series charm with fans 14 in 2019 he noted that some cast members practiced for ten hours daily 4 At her Love Generation concert on February 28 2015 Aimi announced she had aligned with the franchise which included creating a band and serving as its guitarist and vocalist 15 Rimi Nishimoto and Ayasa Itō joined the band in April and the three hosted the project s first concert on April 18 16 In June Aimi performed a solo concert at CharaExpo 2015 in Singapore the franchise s first performance outside of Japan 17 The group was officially named Poppin Party during the month and Sae Ōtsuka and Ayaka Ōhashi completed the band lineup later in the year 8 In addition to live performances the five would voice their own characters in other media such as an anime series and animated music videos 18 the character designs were also loosely modeled after their voice actresses to better reflect their ability to sing and perform 3 Poppin Party s debut single Yes BanG Dream was released on February 24 2016 19 A music video for the song was produced by Issen a joint venture formed between Bushiroad and OLM Inc in 2015 that was also tasked with developing the anime 20 21 To lead the animation Nakamura served as writer while Agematsu and Pixiv artist Hitowa managed music production and character design respectively 20 Poppin Party conducted the franchise s first in character live on April 24 22 the group s early performances were inspired by fellow all female group Silent Siren and the two bands collaborated in May 2019 for the Battle of the Bands style No Girl No Cry concert at MetLife Dome 23 24 Poppin Party s third single On Your New Journey Tear Drops c ranked tenth on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart in December marking the first time an anime music group appeared in an Oricon chart s top ten prior to their show beginning broadcast 26 Launch of anime and game 2017 2019 edit nbsp Illustration from Girls Band Party featuring the vocalists of the initial five bandsIn 2017 BanG Dream expanded to include the anime and the mobile game BanG Dream Girls Band Party 27 Prior to the latter s release the franchise struggled to attract further fan support in the spring media attention was drawn to an official dōjinshi self published works like manga event that saw only nine registered circles a group of artists creating a certain work despite organizing for 400 available circles 8 A lukewarm reception to the anime prompted Kidani to refocus his scope on the game 3 by its launch on March 16 GBP had attracted over 560 000 pre registered players 28 Kidani attributed its eventual success to the collaboration with Craft Egg and Elements Garden and the inclusion of cover versions of popular songs 3 Four more bands Afterglow Pastel Palettes stylized as Pastel Palettes Roselia and Hello Happy World were introduced with the game s arrival 27 Roselia who first appeared at Tokyo Game Show 2016 released its first single Black Shout on April 19 2017 29 30 The group then enjoyed success in May 2018 when its debut album Anfang which contained the band s first five singles was first on the Oricon Weekly Digital and iTunes album charts the album also sold 25 000 copies in the first week of release the second most on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart 31 The band went through two member changes in 2018 with Yuki Nakashima replacing the retiring Yurika Endō as bassist Lisa Imai in May and Kanon Shizaki taking over for Satomi Akesaka who left the project in September due to sensorineural hearing loss as keyboardist Rinko Shirokane in November 32 33 34 In March 2020 Roselia won the 14th Seiyu Awards Singing Award 35 The vocalists for Afterglow Ayane Sakura Pastel Palettes Ami Maeshima and Hello Happy World Miku Itō were revealed during a presentation at Sunshine City Tokyo on December 7 2016 36 Afterglow s remaining cast members confirmed their involvement later in the month 37 while the voice actresses for the other bands were announced in a promotional event at EX Theater Roppongi on February 24 2017 38 The three bands released their debut singles in 2017 Pastel Palettes Shuwarin Dreaming released July 12 ranked the highest on Oricon s weekly charts in fourth 39 followed by Hello Happy World s Orchestra of Smiles d August 2 and Afterglow s That Is How I Roll September 6 in ninth and 18th respectively 41 42 On January 13 14 2018 the five bands participated in the Garupa Live and Garupa Party at Tokyo Big Sight which included activities to promote Girls Band Party and performances 43 The Third Beta a backup band that provided instrumentals for Afterglow Pastel Palettes and Hello Happy World at the event as their voice actresses were not musicians eventually became a standalone unit 44 the tentative name was a reference to being the third live action band in the franchise after Poppin Party and Roselia 45 The group s first live took place in March and it was officially renamed Raise A Suilen stylized as RAISE A SUILEN in July 46 47 BanG Dream saw its first dual single release day on February 21 2018 with Poppin Party and Roselia releasing their ninth CiRCLING and fifth singles Opera of the wasteland respectively 48 A triple release took place on December 12 with Poppin Party s Kizuna Music Roselia s Brave Jewel and Raise A Suilen s R I O T the three singles recorded top ten Oricon Weekly Chart placements 49 Poppin Party s first album Poppin on came out January 30 2019 consisting of the group s first 11 singles it peaked at fourth on Oricon s album chart 10 50 On February 20 the franchise simultaneously released six singles one from each band at the time 51 the tracks placed in the top ten on Oricon s daily chart for February 19 with Roselia s Safe and Sound being the highest in third 52 Morfonica s debut and COVID 19 2020 2021 edit In January 2020 Poppin Party s Initial Straight Through Our Dreams e whose tracks serve as the theme music to the anime s third season became BanG Dream s first single to top Oricon s Weekly Single Sales Chart after selling 27 000 copies from January 7 to 11 54 Shortly after the single s release the franchise surpassed two million total music sales 55 Five months later the BanG Dream Girls Band Party Cover Collection Vol 4 ranked first on Oricon s Weekly Albums Chart with 2 231 first week sales 56 Poppin Party Breakthrough on June 24 Roselia Wahl on July 15 and Raise A Suilen Era on August 19 also released albums during the summer 57 Initial Straight Through Out Dreams 86th Roselia s Promise 87th and Raise A Suilen s Drive Us Crazy 97th were among Billboard Japan s best selling singles in 2020 58 while Wahl 62nd Era 86th and the fourth 93rd and third cover collections 94th were among the year s top albums Wahl and Era were also respectively ranked 67th and 94th on Billboard s Hot Albums of 2020 59 60 A seventh unit called Morfonica was introduced on March 1 2020 to commemorate Girls Band Party s three year anniversary 61 Morfonica is the only band in the franchise with a violinist a distinction that was conceived by Craft Egg to better differentiate it from the others 62 The group s debut single Daylight which was released on May 27 sold over 15 000 copies in its first week and peaked at second on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart 63 64 Morfonica s first live Cantabile took place on October 7 65 Due to the COVID 19 pandemic various franchise related events since 2020 have been impacted Breakthrough was intended for a 3 June release before being pushed to 24 June 66 The BanG Dream Special Live Girls Band Party 2020 was originally scheduled to take place on May 3 until it was postponed to 5 6 June 2021 before being delayed again to 12 November 2022 as cases rose in Japan 67 68 69 A stage play focusing on Raise A Suilen titled We are Raise A Suilen BanG Dream The Stage which consisted of nine performances at the Tennozu Galaxy Theater from July 15 to 19 was streamed online with unused tickets being refunded 70 71 The BanG Dream 8th Live Summer Outdoors 3 Days held August 21 23 admitted only a quarter of the venue s capacity 62 On January 9 2021 the franchise announced Shizaki had tested positive for COVID 19 forcing her to miss the project s Raukure and Asuhamo events at Tokyo Dome City Hall two days later 72 Morfonica s bassist Yuka Nishio skipped her band s Resonance performance on April 24 2022 following a positive test 73 74 Poppin Party s 16th single Photograph which was released in January 2021 became the band s second single to rank first on the Oricon Weekly Chart 75 Introduction of MyGO and Ave Mujica 2022 present edit nbsp Guitars and basses from the franchise produced by ESP Guitars at the Taipei Musical Instruments Fair in 2022Bushiroad continued to add new bands to the franchise with MyGO and Ave Mujica in 2022 and 2023 respectively under a new approach of synchronizing reality and the fictional universe 76 While their characters were named their voice actresses initially remained anonymous To keep their identities hidden during their first shows they played with limited stage lighting that covered their faces while Ave Mujica also wore cloaks 77 78 MyGO s voice actresses were officially revealed at their fourth live show on April 9 2023 79 The first standalone concert for MyGO took place on July 3 2022 with Morfonica s drummer Mika as a supporting musician and they opened for the Special Live Girls Band Party in November 80 81 The band released their debut single Mayoiuta on November 9 82 Ave Mujica released their first single Black Birthday on April 11 2023 followed by their introductory concert on June 4 as part of the final music festival for Nakano Sunplaza prior to its closure 78 On November 30 2022 Maeshima announced her departure from the franchise as part of a career hiatus for health reasons 83 she had missed the Special Live Girls Band Party two weeks prior 80 Despite initial plans for Maeshima s lines as Aya will remain in the game once her successor joined the franchise 84 85 Maeshima returned to her role on September 1 2023 86 On December 12 2023 it was announced that Raise A Suilen will perform in Taipei and Shanghai for their Asia tour on March 2024 Media editLive concerts edit Main article List of BanG Dream live performances nbsp The stage for the BanG Dream 9th Live at Fuji Q Highland Conifer Forest on August 22 2021The voice actresses of Poppin Party Roselia Raise A Suilen and Morfonica play their respective characters instruments during live concerts while the other groups are limited to providing vocals 61 In a 2019 interview with Billboard Japan Roselia s Haruka Kudō and Megu Sakuragawa described this distinction of being a voice actor s band as helping the franchise gain popularity among those unfamiliar with the game and anime 87 while the anime s second and third season director Kōdai Kakimoto explained in 2020 that his staff implements events from the live action concerts into the show to portray the connection between real life and anime For example the third season s final episode features references to the BanG Dream 7th Live as both take place at the Nippon Budokan 88 The first season under Issen also incorporated elements of the performances into the plot such as Kasumi losing her voice in one episode being based on the same occurring to Aimi during the franchise s first show 3 The first BanG Dream concert titled I Started a Band in Spring and held at Shimokitazawa Garden took place on April 18 2015 with Aimi Nishimoto and Itō the three played mainly cover songs with the exception of the original song Yes BanG Dream 16 In 2016 the BanG Dream First Live Sprin Party 2016 on April 24 marked the first performance since the franchise s rebranding to BanG Dream 22 The shows increasing popularity was marked by the Second Live Starrin Party 2016 selling out much of its tickets shortly after opening sales 89 while the 4th Live Miracle Party 2017 at the Budokan sold out its 11 000 tickets prior to general sale Live Viewing Japan simulcasted the performance in 41 Japanese theaters with showings also taking place in Hong Kong and Taiwan 90 91 Delayed screenings would also be provided for later lives for instance the BanG Dream 5th Live in 2018 was shown in select North American and Australian theaters by Azoland Pictures and Madman Entertainment respectively 92 93 In December 2020 the franchise began streaming Sound Only Lives online concerts with exclusively song audio and interactions between the voice cast on its YouTube channel 94 The first Afterglow s As ever took place on December 19 and 20 95 followed by Pastel Palettes Flowerful on February 27 and 28 2021 94 Hello Happy World s Sound Only Live titled Welcome to OUR MUSIC was on May 15 16 96 Print edit BanG Dream Star Beat by Ishida and Nakamura debuted in Monthly Bushiroad on January 8 2015 Featuring numerous differences in character traits from the current series the manga consisted of twelve chapters and ran from the magazine s February 2015 to January 2016 issues 9 A light novel by Nakamura and illustrated by Hitowa which follows Star Beat s story was published on August 25 2016 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint 97 A manga series following the redesigned universe BanG Dream by Mami Kashiwabara and Nakamura was serialized in Monthly Bushiroad from April 2016 to February 2019 98 99 100 Shogakukan Asia acquired the rights to translate the manga into English in February 2017 although the company first released the manga in Southeast Asia its license was not exclusive to the region 101 2016 and 2017 saw the release of two four panel manga with Hakuto Shiroi s Yonkoma Bandori which debuted in ASCII Media Works seinen manga magazine Dengeki G s Comic and concluded in 2017 102 103 and the surrealist Banban Doridori by Nyaromeron in Sogakukan s Coro Coro Aniki 104 In 2017 the first non Poppin Party centric manga BanG Dream Girls Band Party Roselia Stage was written by Pepako Dokuta and circulated in Overlap s magazine Gardo Comics from February to September On March 2 2020 Tokyopop announced it had licensed the series for North American release 105 Raise A Suilen also received a series titled RAiSe The story of my music by Nakamura and art by Ryu Shihara RAiSe began in 2019 in Monthly Bushiroad 106 An anthology series manga of the chibi anime spin off BanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico was published by Bushiroad and released by Kadokawa Corporation on March 14 2019 Titled BanG Dream Garupa Pico Comic Anthology the book is a compilation work from 17 artists 107 An online manga titled BanG Dream Girls Band Party The First Page which retells event stories from the game was released on March 16 2021 108 Anime edit Main article List of BanG Dream episodes As of 2023 update the franchise s mainline anime television adaptation consists of three seasons Sentai Filmworks licenses the series for digital and home release in regions like North America Oceania and Europe 109 the company also simulcast the second and third seasons on its HIDIVE platform 110 111 In Southeast Asia and South Asia Muse Communication holds the show s rights 112 The first season which was animated by Issen and Xebec and directed by Atsushi Ōtsuki aired from January 21 to April 22 2017 on Tokyo MX 113 114 The 13 episode series follows Poppin Party s creation and the band performs the show s opening and ending theme music Tokimeki Experience and Sparkling Dreaming Sing Girls f 116 The anime was streamed on the Anime Network and by Crunchyroll 113 117 and was later released across seven Blu ray and DVD volumes An original video animation episode received advanced screenings before being available on the seventh BD DVD volume released on November 22 118 Sanzigen replaced Issen and Xebec for the second and third seasons which saw a shift to primarily computer generated animation 119 120 in comparison the first season only used CGI during performances to better show the nuances in playing instruments 121 Although CGI was the focal animation type under Sanzigen some aspects like various articles of clothing were still drawn by hand and motion capture acting was utilized for performances 88 122 BanG Dream was the first non science fiction production by Sanzigen who prepared for the anime by creating a music video for the Roselia song Neo Aspect 123 124 Kōdai Kakimoto took over as director while staff members like composition and script writer Yuniko Ayana continued their roles 125 Airing from January 3 to March 28 2019 and simulcast on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE BanG Dream 2nd Season increases its scope to include Afterglow Pastel Palettes Roselia Hello Happy World and Raise A Suilen 126 127 Unlike its predecessor the season features a larger emphasis on concerts which Sanzigen reflected by titling each episode after songs the first season used fun and cute titles that followed a subject and verb sentence structure 88 It had two opening themes Kizuna Music by Poppin Party and Brave Jewel by Roselia and two ending themes Jumpin by Poppin Party and Safe and Sound by Roselia 128 110 An English dub of the season was released on Blu ray and began streaming on HIDIVE on April 21 2020 129 130 the dub was directed by John Swasey and licensed by Sentai 131 The third season was originally scheduled for October 2019 before being delayed to January 2020 132 It details Poppin Party s participation in the BanG Dream Girls Band Challenge and the growth of Raise A Suilen 133 the premise of a competition had been entertained by the animation staff prior to beginning production on the second season 88 With more focus on the bands individual development the season s episode titles were taken from lines stated by the characters in the episodes 88 BanG Dream 3rd Season aired from January 23 to April 23 2020 134 though the first episode came out on January 7 as it was bundled with a limited edition Blu ray release for Poppin Party s Initial Straight Through Our Dreams 135 The single s tracks are also the season s theme music with Initial as the opening and Straight Through Our Dreams as the ending 136 Kakimoto and the previous season s staff returned for the new installment 137 HIDIVE s simulcast began with the January 7 premiere date while VRV also assumed streaming rights 111 138 Spin offs and films edit Outside of the main series two chibi spin offs called Pastel Life and BanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico aired in May and July 2018 respectively 139 140 Studio A Cat worked on Pastel Life with leadership from Tommy Hino 141 142 while Pico was animated by Sanzigen in conjunction with DMM futureworks and directed by Seiya Miyajima 143 144 A second season of Pico titled BanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico Ohmori aired from May to October 2020 145 A third season of Pico titled BanG Dream Girls Band Party Pico Fever aired from October 7 2021 to March 31 2022 146 147 BanG Dream Film Live a concert movie animated by Sanzigen and starring the original five bands premiered on September 13 2019 132 148 The movie was directed by Tomomi Umetsu with script by Nakamura in addition to the main cast Kazuyuki Ueda and Elements Garden returned to reprise their roles as character designer and music producer respectively 149 After opening in 56 theaters the film grossed approximately 300 million at the box office in its first month 148 150 After acquiring its license in August 2020 Sentai conducted limited cinematic screenings of the movie in addition to home release 151 A sequel BanG Dream Film Live 2nd Stage adds Morfonica and Raise A Suilen to the cast and premiered on August 20 2021 152 153 A two part film series focusing on Roselia called BanG Dream Episode of Roselia each subtitled Promise and Song I am saw a theatrical release in 2021 Promise premiered on April 23 while Song I am did so on June 25 154 155 Online streaming platform Eventive carried both movies in the United States 156 A Poppin Party centric movie titled BanG Dream Poppin Dream premiered on January 1 2022 138 157 Crunchyroll licensed both films outside of Asia 158 In 2022 to commemorate Girls Band Party s fifth anniversary a two episode animation titled BanG Dream Girls Band Party 5th Anniversary Animation CiRCLE Thanks Party was released on March 10 and 17 159 On March 19 2022 it was announced that Morfonica was receiving an original anime titled BanG Dream Morfonication which premiered on July 28 and 29 2022 160 161 An anime television series adaptation centered around MyGO was announced on April 9 2023 The series was animated by Sanzigen and directed by Kodai Kakimoto with Yuniko Ayana writing and supervising series scripts It premiered on June 29 2023 with three episodes premiering on the same day 162 163 Crunchyroll licensed the series 164 On January 6 it was announced that it will compilation film into two parts revealed the two parts would be titled Spring Sunshine Lost Cat and Sing Songs That Become Us amp FILM LIVE is set to premiere in Japanese theaters on 2024 165 166 A sequel titled Ave Mujica was announced after the airing of the thirteenth episode in September 2023 167 It will premiere in January 2025 168 Game edit Main article BanG Dream Girls Band Party nbsp A BanG Dream Girls Band Party promotion with Lawson in Chongqing in 2019BanG Dream Girls Band Party also known as Garupa is a free to play mobile rhythm game developed by Craft Egg and published by Bushiroad s Bushimo for the Android and iOS platforms 169 Revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2016 170 it was first released in Japan on March 16 2017 28 An English language global version was launched in Singapore on March 29 2018 followed by a worldwide release on April 4 171 The game was also released in traditional Chinese in Taiwan Hong Kong and Macao on October 19 2017 with Mobimon Inc serving as publisher 172 173 mainland China received its own version by bilibili on May 30 2019 174 A Korean language edition was published by Kakao Games on February 6 2018 175 176 The Korean server will cease operations in January 31 2024 The gameplay consists of tapping notes as they scroll toward the bottom to the rhythm of a selected song 177 Playable tracks include original pieces from the series and cover versions of popular anime music the latter of which was inspired by their popularity during the BanG Dream lives Kidani compared the inclusion of covers to the use of mainstream series in Bushiroad s Weiss Schwarz card game as drops in momentum are canceled out by the addition of popular titles 3 Some covers were spawned by collaborations between the game and other series such as the anime Is the Order a Rabbit and Re Zero Starting Life in Another World 178 179 An augmented reality application based on the game titled Bandori Garupa AR was distributed for a limited period starting January 9 2018 180 In 2019 Girls Band Party partnered with SCRAP Co to organize Find the Random Star an escape room like game in which participants search for Kasumi s lost guitar by solving riddles located throughout the city The event ran from December 4 2019 to February 29 2020 in Tokyo Nagoya and Osaka 181 A Nintendo Switch port was released on September 16 2021 68 182 Side projects editArgonavis edit Main article From Argonavis In May 2018 Bushiroad revealed a male centric project titled Argonavis from BanG Dream stylized as ARGONAVIS Despite sharing the BanG Dream name Kidani emphasized that Argonavis takes place in a different world from the main series meaning there would be no interactions between the characters of both projects 183 The titular band began performing in December like their female counterparts Argonavis plays their own music in addition to portraying characters 184 Argonavis also overlapped with the main franchise at the BanG Dream 7th Live on February 22 2019 where they served as the opening act for Raise A Suilen s Genesis concert 185 Manga artist Hikaru Miyoshi designed the characters and Nobuhiro Mōri wrote the story 186 An Argonavis anime series produced by Sanzigen debuted on April 10 2020 187 The Argonavis from BanG Dream AAside mobile game a sequel to the anime that adds additional bands was released on January 14 2021 188 189 In November 2021 Bushiroad announced the project would be changed from Argonavis from BanG Dream to From Argonavis stylized with a lowercase f spinning it off into its own subsidiary separate from the BanG Dream franchise 190 A new company to manage the project Argonavis Co Ltd was also established with Argonavis member Daisuke Hyuga as the public relations manager 191 Virtual band edit A band for VTubers which entails being hired by Bushiroad s voice acting agency HiBiKi for online streaming was created in 2022 Open auditions were held from July 22 to August 14 though applicants were not required to play instruments 192 Reception editWhen Girls Band Party was released everything just went through the roof That s why while there are a lot of people who thought Wait how did this thing become a hit when the anime was that bad I think it s all because of the game s level of polish and the live shows We accomplished something that didn t seem possible after all Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani in a 2018 interview with Real Sound 3 BanG Dream has received worldwide acclaim for its live concerts and Girls Band Party 3 In 2017 Jessica Liong of ComicsVerse described the biggest appeal of the franchise as being its live performers The key it seems is to draw people in with anime girls and keep them with the glamor of real life concerts 8 After Poppin Party s debut single Yes BanG Dream sold less than 1 500 copies in its first week and their second song Star Beat had 3 414 in the same time frame performances such as at Animelo Summer Live 2016 helped boost the initial week sales of the third single On Your New Journey Tear Drops to 11 301 By 2018 the band s singles regularly saw over 10 000 20 000 sales in their opening weeks 193 The series has become a financial boon for Bushiroad In 2018 it averaged over 4 billion in annual revenue making it one of the company s top producing intellectual properties From August 2017 to July 2018 Bushiroad s Weiss Schwarz brand experienced record sales after adding BanG Dream cards to its collection 194 Girls Band Party grossed 31 2 billion 284 28 million between 2017 and 2018 including 9 1 billion in 2017 and 22 1 billion in 2018 195 196 during the latter year the game was the 15th most successful mobile game and the second most successful rhythm game in Japan in terms of revenue only behind The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage 196 BanG Dream has also collaborated with various entities for promotions like Pacific League baseball 197 the Lawson convenience store chain 198 199 and Seiko watches 200 Anime edit The anime has garnered mixed but gradually improving reception over time Although the first season had lukewarm responses the second and third have been regarded in a more positive light by reviewers Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post who reviewed the first two seasons praised the franchise s preparation for the anime s later seasons by producing other media to flesh out the setting rather than hastily creating additional seasons 129 The first season was one of the most discussed shows on Japanese social media during the winter 2017 season 201 However it received mediocre reviews with particular criticism aimed at its plot In a C grade critique Anime News Network s Christopher Farris described the story as being one of the downright emptiest he had seen in anime in a long while citing the lack of true adversity faced by the characters 121 Opinions on the animation and design were divided with Farris calling it a great looking product overall while Otaku USA writer Brittany Vincent who noted other music shows like Love Live also use CGI wrote they don t look particularly great 202 121 Although Vincent praised the show for having a lot of heart she added there are more inspired choices out there for music anime 202 Beveridge expressed his pleasure with the cast s realism though he stressed the viewer s opinion of the characters will make or break the show He ultimately described BanG Dream as a solid and serviceable show that felt like a lot of other girl band shows 203 In a 2018 interview with Real Sound Kidani admitted the unenthusiastic reception from Japanese audiences led him to shift his investment to promoting Girls Band Party before its release 3 Among Western reviewers the second season was generally seen as an improvement story and animation wise In an article for Polygon Julia Lee listed the season as one of six new anime series to watch this winter praising the emphasis on the new bands and the switch to CGI without losing much of the artistic style that made the first season pop 204 Farris questioned the inclusion of new characters without much introduction writing it was a jarring transition for those unfamiliar to Girls Band Party Nevertheless he commended its emotional impact and increase in musical numbers grading the season as a C as he felt there were still a lot of caveats to iron out before it can be called a true success for all but the most devoted 205 Beveridge praised the season s performances for its fluid animation and infectious energy in the songs and added that although he was not invested in the individual characters he found it incredibly easy to be engaged from episode to episode and enjoy the journey 129 The third season enjoyed favorable responses from writers like Farris and The Fandom Post s Shawn Hacaga the former issuing a B grade and the latter who considers himself a fan of the franchise writing reviews for each episode 206 207 Describing the season as a generally solid show in its own right Farris praised the storyline for its concrete emphasis on the three main bands Poppin Party Roselia and Raise A Suilen and its success in promoting the franchise s premise that playing in a band with your friends for fun is the ultimate goal of performing 206 Hacaga lauded Raise A Suilen s story prompting him to regard the season as exceeding his expectations in his review of the fourth and fifth episodes and described the bands growths throughout the season as an absolute joy to watch in his final critique 208 209 Discography editMain article BanG Dream discography Eleven bands Poppin Party Roselia Afterglow Pastel Palettes Hello Happy World Raise A Suilen Morfonica MyGO Ave Mujica Mugendai Mewtype and Glitter Green have each released singles and albums the latter of which include original and cover songs Glitter Green s lone single Don t be afraid which was used as an insert song for the anime s first season was released in collaboration with Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 210 Kō Nakamura and Elements Garden s Asuka Oda serve as the franchise s primary lyricists with the former writing lyrics for most Poppin Party songs while the latter does so for the others Elements Garden s other members such as Noriyasu Agematsu and Junpei Fujita also compose and arrange music for the series 211 In 2021 the project introduced a series of tie up partnership songs that are written and composed by artists outside of Elements Garden the first song Introduction performed by Poppin Party was the creation of Yoasobi s Ayase 212 213 Afterglow also teamed up with the band Flow for the song Winner as part of Flow s single Dice 214 Various songs from BanG Dream have been used as theme music for other Bushiroad properties Poppin Party s Excellent Hey Let s Go g and B O F served as an opening and ending theme for the Future Card Buddyfight series respectively Aimi and Nishimoto also voiced characters in the show 216 217 In 2020 Raise A Suilen performed the opening Sacred world for the anime Assault Lily Bouquet 218 The following year RAS Exist and Embrace of light were the themes to Joran The Princess of Snow and Blood 219 In July Poppin Party and Argonavis performed the theme songs A Song No More h and Possibility respectively for Remake Our Life Aimi and Argonavis Masahiro Itō also starred in the show 221 222 Poppin Party s Moonlight Walk was also used as the ending for The Fruit of Evolution 223 The Cardfight Vanguard series has also made regular use of the franchise s music for theme songs Its 2018 reboot saw Roselia perform the opening Legendary and ending Heroic Advent the latter appearing in the G Z arc 224 225 while RAS was responsible for one of the reboot s endings Unstoppable and Cardfight Vanguard High School Arc Cont s themes with Invincible Fighter and Takin My Heart 226 227 In 2021 the first season of Cardfight Vanguard overDress respectively featured Roselia s ZEAL of proud and Argonavis Y as its opening and ending while the second season utilized Morfonica s Fateful as an ending 228 229 The 2018 Cardfight spin off Bermuda Triangle Colorful Pastrale had the Pastel Palettes song Wonderland Girl as its opening 230 Notes edit a b c d Also known as Funimation BanG Dream is a stylized form of Girl Band Dream the G of Girl replacing the d of Band to form BanG 2 Japanese title Hashiri Hajimeta Bakari no Kimi ni Teardrops 走り始めたばかりのキミに ティアドロップス English title is from the English language website 25 Japanese title Egao no Orchestra えがおのオーケストラっ English title is from the English language website 40 Japanese title Initial Yume wo Uchinuku Shunkan ni イニシャル 夢を撃ち抜く瞬間に English title is from the English language website 53 Japanese title Kirakira da toka Yume da toka Sing Girls キラキラだとか夢だとか Sing Girls English title is from the English language website 115 Japanese title Saa Ikō Let s Go 最高 さあ行こう English title is from the English language website 215 Japanese title Koko Kara Saki wa Uta ni Naranai ここから先は歌にならない English title is from the English language website 220 References edit Pineda Rafael Antonio January 4 2017 Animax Asia to Air Gabriel Dropout BanG Dream Anime Anime News Network Archived from the original on August 13 2020 Retrieved January 5 2017 a b Nakamura Kō August 24 2016 夢を撃ち抜け BanG Dream Shoot through your dreams BanG Dream Kō Nakamura in Japanese Livedoor Archived from the original on March 29 2020 Retrieved March 30 2020 a b c d e f g h i j Kidani Takaaki November 6 2018 ブシロード 木谷高明が語る バンドリ プロジェクトの軌跡と未来 何十年も続く作品にしたい Bushiroad s Takaaki Kitani talks about BanG Dream s project trajectory and future I want to make a work that will last for decades Interview in Japanese Interviewed by Kenji Sunaga Real Sound Retrieved March 14 2020 a b バンドリ 声優陣は1日10時間の楽器練習 木谷高明氏が語るヒット理由と未来 BanG Dream voice actors practice musical instruments for 10 hours a day Takaaki Kidani talks about hit reasons and future Oricon in Japanese September 8 2019 Archived from the original on December 5 2019 Retrieved March 14 2020 Kidani Takaaki April 11 2020 いかにしてブシロードは誕生し 成長したか 木谷高明氏ロングインタビュー第1回 How was Bushiroad born and grown Takaaki Kidani Long Interview No 1 Interview in Japanese Interviewed by Sudo Naoshi The Nikkei Archived from the original on April 11 2020 Retrieved April 13 2020 Nakamura Ko April 30 2020 月刊ブシロード5月号 に掲載された BanG Dream D4DJ 原作者 中村航さんのインタビューがアニメイトタイムズに出張掲載 An interview with Ko Nakamura the original author of BanG Dream amp D4DJ published in the Monthly Bushiroad May issue is posted on Animate Times on a business trip Interview in Japanese Animate Retrieved January 22 2022 a b Nakamura Kō May 15 2019 Poppin Partyに関しては一切出し惜しみしていない 小説家 中村航が語る バンドリ 歌詞の秘密 I have not spared anything about Poppin Party The novelist Kō Nakamura talks about BanG Dream The secret of the lyrics Livedoor Interview in Japanese Interviewed by Oikawa Ichino Retrieved April 1 2020 a b c d Liong Jessica July 10 2017 BANG DREAM Poppin Party s Rise to Stardom ComicsVerse Archived from the original on April 30 2019 Retrieved March 6 2020 a b BanG Dream 星の鼓動 コミックス 2018年1月13日 土 発売 BanG Dream Star Beat Manga Released on Saturday January 13 2018 Monthly Bushiroad in Japanese January 13 2018 Retrieved March 6 2020 a b Nakamura Kō February 3 2019 中村航が語る Poppin Partyの歌詞に刻まれた 成長の足跡 十年 二十年と走り切ってほしい Kō Nakamura talks about the footprint of growth in the lyrics of Poppin Party I want you to run for 10 or 20 years Real Sound Interview in Japanese Interviewed by Sugiyama Hitoshi Retrieved March 30 2020 Nakamura Kō August 11 2016 夏のお知らせ ３つ Summer news 3 Kō Nakamura in Japanese Livedoor Archived from the original on March 29 2020 Retrieved March 28 2020 Chapman Paul August 12 2016 Poppin Party Rocks Out in New BanG Dream Trailer Crunchyroll Archived from the original on March 22 2020 Retrieved March 28 2020 Agematsu Noriyasu May 20 2019 かつてないプロジェクトが誇りに Elements Garden 上松範康が バンドリ に懸ける思い Proud of an unprecedented project Elements Garden and Noriyasu Agematsu s thoughts about BanG Dream Interview in Japanese Interviewed by Oikawa Ichino Livedoor Retrieved September 4 2020 Kidani Takaaki Agematsu Noriyasu May 2 2018 木谷高明 ブシロード 上松範康 Elements Garden 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